Due to financial constraints Bhatkar was unable to leave his job with HMV. After this film, the pair separated and Phadke went to give music to films like Gokul, Aagey Badho, etc. The problem was that due to his service in HMV, he could not openly work outside. In 1946, they got a film of Baburao Painter – Rukmini Swayamvar – for music direction. Sudhir Phadke who too served in HMV and recorded some songs from 1943 to 1945, joined hands with Bhatkar and made a pair-Vasudev-Sudhir.
Some of them are popular in Maharashtra even today.Īll this while, Bhatkar was looking for opportunity to compose in films. At the same time, taking cognizance of his singing skills, many Marathi bhavgeets and bhajans were recorded by HMV. Here he used to give accompaniment on Harmonium to big classical singers. Because of his singing and skills in playing Harmonium and other instruments, he got a job with H.M.V. He was invited to sing in Ganesh Melas and other celebrations and soon became a well-known name in the locality.
He knew at least 100 bhajans by heart by the time he was in his 10th class. In the lower middle class, the people had their entertainments in singing Bhajans and doing Keertans in Temples en masse. He was born into and grew up in a family that was surrounded by traditional devotional music all around. Till the very end he was contented with whatever God gave him, and whatever name and success he achieved. The maxim of simple living and high thinking never worked in this Mayanagari, but he had no regrets. May be they never wanted to enslave music to gain name and fame, instead they preferred to settle for genuine service to music! These composers did not know, perhaps, how to sell their art. Big banners never approached them and eventually the losers were the music lovers in India. They really deserved success and fame, but luck did not favour them. who could never reach the peaks of their careers. Shafi, Iqbal Qureshi, Daan singh, C.Arjun, Ramlal, Sardar Malik, Ajit Merchant, Jamal Sen, Dattaram, Ganesh, etc. In Hindi film music field there were some talented composers like Ghulam Mohd, Mohd. Such was the appearance of one of Hindi filmdom’s talented, yet not so famous, music maestro VASUDEV GANGARAM BHATKAR or Snehal Bhatkar, as we all know him. White full shirt, ironed white pyjama, spectacles with big powerful lenses and the trademark white Gandhi Topi… He could easily be mistaken for a ‘Pandharpur Warkari’ (a regular pilgrim to Pandharpur) or a member of a ‘Bhajani Mandali’ or simply a middle class ‘Marathi Manoos’. If this article appears in sites like and etc then it is piracy of the copyright content of and is a punishable offence under the existing laws.
This article is written by Arunkumar Deshmukh, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a contributor to this blog.
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